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As guests of hotels, motels and other lodgings enjoy R&R, it’s the work of the hotel manager to ensure such visits run smoothly and favorably, making sure employees do all they can to ensure a visitor’s stay is enjoyable. At the same time, it’s the GM’s job to ensure that a property is running efficiently and turning a profit.

Want to shake it up in hospitality? Mixologists, or those skilled at making cocktails and other drinks, get to do just that for a living. What distinguishes those who work from bar to bar, apart from others who are sought after as brand ambassadors and media personalities is a magical brew of skills and personality traits.

Craig Burdick, Director of Food and Beverage at New York Hilton Midtown, provides career advice and insights into what it takes to build a successful food and beverage career in the hospitality industry, including tips on education and training, navigating the interview and hiring process, how to gain valuable experience when you’re just starting out, and what kinds of rewards or challenges you’ll face on the job.

A passion for food and love of teaching are the key forces behind Katherine Alford’s success. In her current role as Senior Vice President Culinary at Food Network, which is distributed to over 100 million U.S. households, Alford oversees the busy “Test Kitchens,” developing recipes for Food Network Magazine, cookbooks, network shows, FoodNetwork.com and CookingChannel.com.

If you’re like most people, you think about stocking towels and toiletries, changing linens, emptying trashcans and vacuuming rooms when you think about housekeeping. You might, therefore, assume that a housekeeping manager would merely train, schedule and supervise the team responsible for those duties. However, you’d be wrong. Housekeeping management requires so much more!

Julie Valeriote, Cruise Director for Norwegian Cruise Lines, has nearly 20 years experience in the cruise industry, and she explains daily life aboard the ship, the perks of traveling the world while you work, and the how she turned a summer job into a long, rewarding career.

Here, HCareers features a sampling of several women who are decision-makers at their respective companies, who have achieved success through myriad career paths and whose diverse business acumen epitomizes the various areas of the industry that are open to women.

Some of these distinguished executives got a humble start in hotels, igniting what would eventually become a professional passion for the industry. Here, Hcareers takes a look at the less-than-glamorous beginnings that set several hotel chiefs onto a successful path into hospitality.

Peggy Berg, founder of hotel investment advisory firm The Highland Group, launched the Castell Project in early 2016. The non-profit organization champions moving more women into executive and c-suite roles in the hospitality industry, where there is a dearth of female leadership.

As hotel guests sip cocktails poolside, enjoying R&R, it’s the job of hotel managers to make sure such stays are pleasant and go off without a hitch. To this end, a GM’s responsibilities range from managing employees to ensuring that a property is efficiently running and making a healthy profit.

You’re on point with PowerPoint and can analyze a P&L statement like nobody else. But to rise with staying power in the hospitality world, it takes more than the hard marketing and financial skills you picked up in school or training.

For Ricardo Perez, general manager of Oyster Bay Beach Resort in St. Maarten, Huricane Irma literally dampened operations at the property, which is normally at an 82% occupancy rate this time of year. But since the storm, it’s at zero and temporarily closed.